Barbara Turner
Resources created by Barbara Turner
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- Career skill: Writing expressions and equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.9
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will translate between natural language sentences and mathematical equations. Students will discuss how this skill may be useful in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Frequency tables
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.1
- In this lesson for grade seven, students discuss how frequency tables are used in various careers. Students use survey data collected in class to make their own frequency tables and present them to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey, Carol Taylor, and Monika Vasili.Adapted by Sharon Abell and Barbara Turner.
- Interior designers: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.4
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as interior designers, and will measure the walls of the classroom to determine the area of each wall.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Linear equations
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.2
- In this lesson for grade seven, students calculate monthly bills for cell phone plans using linear equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Percent of a number
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.10
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will act as fair planners ordering food for the Dixie Classic Fair. Students will calculate percentages to determine how much food to order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Perimeter of rectangles
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.3
- In this lesson for grade seven, students practice measuring perimeter and discuss careers in which calculations of perimeter are important.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Scale drawings
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.7
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will use maps to measure the distances between cities in North Carolina. Students will write equations using the maps' scales to calculate the actual distances in miles.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Simple interest
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.6
- In this lesson for grade seven, students learn how to calculate simple interest, and research careers in which people need to understand simple interest.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Tammie J. Dawkins-Smith and Cynthia Russell.Adapted by Sharon Abell, Peggy Dickey, and Barbara Turner.
- Stockbrokers: Adding and subtracting integers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.8
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will learn about the careers of stockbrokers, and will attempt to quickly solve the kinds of problems stockbrokers must solve every day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
- Surface area of rectangular prisms
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 2.5
- In this lesson for grade seven, students calculate the surface area of flattened cardboard boxes and discuss how the concept of surface area is important in various careers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Peggy Dickey and Barbara Turner.Adapted by Sharon Abell.
